How to Use high-wire in a Sentence

high-wire

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• Even if you guys are on the same page, talking about politics is a high-wire act.
  — Julia Ries, SELF, 16 Sep. 2024
• The Bruins had taken their high-wire act to new heights while improving to 8-0.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• The music, as Spiegelman notes, has to be tuned into, tracked among the acrobatics of wordage, the high-wire leaps of thought.
  — Carol Muske-Dukes, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
• Enter Email Sign Up His high-wire legal act hit a new challenge this month.
  — Jonathan Swan, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
• But Weaver and the Reds bullpen pulled off the high-wire act most of the rest of the way, escaping sizable jams in the fourth, fifth and eighth innings – before Salvador Perez’s tying shot in the ninth.
  — Gordon Wittenmyer, The Enquirer, 13 June 2023
• That’s the high-wire act that creator Jesse Armstrong, whose previous shows were comedies, managed to pull off.
  — Rachel Dodes, ELLE, 31 May 2023
• Taking on Trump could be a high-wire act considering that DeSantis would need to win over at least a slice of his diehard base.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 16 May 2023
• That’s a high-wire act to pull off, to keep the momentum going on a TV series, especially in this climate.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
• Then there’s the movie’s ringmaster, Greta Gerwig, who co-wrote the movie with partner Noah Baumbach and directed the high-wire act.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Aug. 2023
• And producers, who face a financial high-wire act even in the best of times, have made some not-to-subtle calculations.
  — Tim Balk, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2024
• Philippe Petit, the high-wire artist, had wanted to visit Edge, the hundredth-floor observation deck at Hudson Yards, for a long time.
  — Bob Morris, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
• What would normally be a routine Fed meeting is shaping up to be a high-wire balancing act.
  — Alexander Kurov, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2023
• The book’s constant mimicry of disposable digital expression makes for a tonal high-wire act.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
• Reds reliever Fernando Cruz completed a high-wire act in the 10th inning by entering the game with two outs and the bases loaded.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 3 June 2023
• The result is a madcap high-wire act of choreography and comedy.
  — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2023
• Each of the five leaders is engaged in a high-wire act, trying to pursue reforms without triggering a backlash.
  — Judd Devermont, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019
• This is a high-wire act for both Brazilian democracy and the climate that requires uncommon balance.
  — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
• Thomas rejected the high-wire act that girls who have wanted to make progress have been told to perfect—that dance between using girlhood as a shield and turning it into a weapon.
  — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 14 June 2023
• Could our patron saint of modern cinematic womanhood pull off this high-wire act?
  — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 18 July 2023
• Each show is a feat of improvisation, and part of the appeal is witnessing this high-wire act alongside fellow travelers.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 June 2024
• Over that time span, Republicans have regularly carried out a high-wire act.
  — Paul Kane, Washington Post, 27 May 2023
• South American qualifying, for so long such a high-wire act, now operates with a colossal safety net.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• Doing both at once, as unfolded in dozens of summer school classrooms around Portland this summer, is a high-wire act for both Younie and her unsuspecting students.
  — oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2023
• Even knowing that there’s a fall and an eventual rescue, the high-wire drama of everything that follows makes for stomach-knotting, heart-racing reading.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
• The hand-raising moment illustrated the high-wire act that is Mr. Pence’s campaign — embracing Trumpism, while distancing himself from it.
  — Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• Harrison had escaped one jam an inning earlier, but the Giants’ skipper wouldn’t give him the leeway to navigate another high-wire act.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 12 July 2024
• Wide-eyed spectators wandered freely through Egyptian and Medieval Courts, delighted in high-wire circus acts, and were transported by a 4,000-piece orchestra.
  — Yannic Rack, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
• For artists, the live entertainment industry has always been a bit of a high-wire act, but since the pandemic, it’s become more like juggling flaming torches on a unicycle, while covered in gasoline.
  — Seth Yudof, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2023
• Her audience’s eyes were still recovering from her high-wire gyrations, her postapocalyptic backup ravers, and her many, many lasers.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2023
• American Airlines and United both had to navigate the high-wire act of negotiating new pilots union contracts—and both did so successfully.
  — Bypaolo Confino, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024